How to upload a Viewing file Open Iconik and go to your Viewing Files Collections folder Select your folder In the bottom left of the screen click upload Click or drop your files into the box, then press upload – that’s it! Wait for it to finish uploading and let the other person know How to view a file and comment In the collections window go to the Viewing Files folder and select the folder where the file is stored Double click into the video The Comments window down the right will display any comments already made on the file Add time based comments by moving the play head through the clip then adding a comment in the box below and pressing Send To reply to a comment hit the ‘To reply to a comment hit the ‘Reply’ button under a comment’ button under a comment How to view proxies Go to the Collections window (should be the default home screen) and navigate to your projects proxies collection You’ll see folders organised by date, these are a mirror to what the editors will receive for the offline Click into each folder to view the clips inside Notifications Notifications are important […]

Our work on BBC Two's The Speedshop has been featured in several magazines! Read more about what they said here.

For remote client monitoring we recommend using NDI Tools with Zoom for sharing as if it were a traditional client monitor. This is built into Media Composer and has the best user experience and will adapt well to any bandwidth constraints that may arise. The installation and setup instructions are below.

Our talented Finishing Artist, Katie Kemp, graded never-before-seen footage to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11 for Brook Lapping’s new 90-minute documentary, 9/11: Life Under Attack.

All drives that are shipped around with production data on them should be encrypted. Especially when shipping rushes. Below is the most simple approach to dealing with drive encryption via software when hardware encryption isn’t available.

Every production requires a bespoke solution for editorial; whether they are located at home, in serviced offices, or in the production office, we need to take into consideration a number of variables such as internet speed and location, as well as the data management and security demands of the project. The fundamentals of our craft editing solutions are covered below. Contact our bookings team for pricing and additional information.

We are able to provide synchronous and asynchronous review during our finishing process. The asynchronous approach is preferred as it saves a lot of cost to production by having members of the team review and give feedback on their own time rather than having talent, suites and equipment tied up during the process. It also gives the most reliable viewing experience regardless of internet and network challenges that can inhibit live review. The synchronous option is a great way to quickly spot check changes or adjust elements live when a finer level of control and feedback is required. Our review options are covered below. Contact our bookings team for pricing and information.

The team at EditShare interviewed me recently and you can find links to both interviews here. They also wrote this story about how The Finish Line came to be which I’ve included below.

This is a basic workflow or tips for ingesting media via DaVinci Resolve to be used externally in applications like Avid Media Composer. The goal of these steps isn’t to be the perfect workflow for all productions as we customise a lot of this for specific cameras and workflows but hopefully this will help any productions looking to manage their own media to do it in a way that should make the conform process more simple for us when the time comes for final post. If you need to talk to us about a specific project so we can create a more refined template please get in-touch.

This is a demo of automated ingest, cloud hosted viewing and editing from The Finish Line.